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August 19, 2005 12:00 AM - Oshrat Carmiel, The Hartford Courant

The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority, the state agency that collects, burns and disposes of trash for 70 towns, is about to make a breakthrough in recycling.
Officials Wednesday announced plans for a new $6 million recycling center, a state-of-the-art facility that can handle a far broader mix of items.

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press

Water containing small amounts of radiation spilled out of spent fuel storage pools at two nuclear power plants in northern Japan when a powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook the region, the plants' operator said Wednesday.

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Matthew Barakat, Associated Press

Concerned about potential overharvesting, a regional commission has voted to limit the catch of a small but ecologically important fish in the Chesapeake Bay. Wednesday's vote by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission would curtail the annual menhaden catch in the bay to 106,000 metric tons for five years beginning in 2006.

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Paul Geary, ENN

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press

Can the pocket gopher be saved? The rodent, a secretive animal that usually goes unnoticed underground, is near extinction in south Georgia, biologists say. They're starting a new push to save the creature ecologists say does important work providing habitat for other animals and aerating the soil.

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Yereth Rosen, Reuters

Fresh from visits to Canada's Yukon Territory and Alaska's northernmost city, four U.S. senators said Wednesday that signs of rising temperatures on Earth are obvious and they called on Congress to act.

August 18, 2005 12:00 AM - Terence Chea, Associated Press

Toxic waste from computers, TVs and other electronic devices discarded in the United States and dismantled in China and India is an even more severe problem than previously feared, according to environmental groups that seek better recycling programs.